A report on University of Toronto

Coat of arms of the University of Toronto
Charter granted by King George IV in 1827, establishing King's College.
Painting of University College, 1859.
A Sopwith Camel aircraft rests on the Front Campus lawn in 1918.
Soldiers' Tower, a memorial to alumni fallen in the World Wars, contains a 51-bell carillon.
The neoclassical Convocation Hall is characterized by its domed roof and Ionic-pillared rotunda.
Old Vic, the main building of Victoria College, typifies the Richardsonian Romanesque style.
The Sandford Fleming Building contains offices of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering.
The Munk School of Global Affairs encompasses programs and research institutes for international relations.
The Naylor Building contains offices for the university's Department of Medicine.
Robarts Library, a Brutalist structure, houses the university's main collection for humanities and social sciences.
The AeroVelo Atlas won the Sikorsky Human Powered Helicopter Competition in 2013.
The discovery of stem cells by McCulloch and Till is the basis for all modern stem cell research.
The Donnelly Centre is part of the Discovery District, one of the world's largest biotechnology research clusters.
Varsity Stadium
The University of Toronto Rowing Club trains in Toronto Harbour for the 1924 Summer Olympics. The team won silver for Canada.
Generations of students have attended speeches, debates and concerts at Hart House.
Sunlight fills Knox College Chapel during a Christmas concert of the engineering faculty's Skule Choir.
21 Sussex Court holds office space for several student organizations, like The Varsity newspaper.
Teefy House, a residence hall of St. Michael's College, is home to female first-year undergraduate students.
William Lyon Mackenzie King, the longest-serving Prime Minister in Canadian history with over 21 years in office, BA, MA
Lester B. Pearson, Canadian Prime Minister and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957, BA
Paul Martin, 21st Canadian Prime Minister, LLB
John Kenneth Galbraith, noted economist and a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism, B.Sc.(Agr.)
John Charles Fields, mathematician and the founder of the prestigious Fields Medal
Harold Innis, professor of political economy, helped develop the staples thesis and the Toronto School of communication theory
Frederick Banting, Nobel Laureate in Medicine and the first person to use insulin on humans, MD
Roberta Bondar, CSA astronaut and the first Canadian female in space, PhD
Julie Payette, CSA astronaut and the 29th Governor General of Canada, MASc
Jennie Smillie Robertson, First female surgeon in Canada, MD

Public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park.

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Vincent Massey

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Canadian lawyer and diplomat who served as Governor General of Canada, the 18th since Confederation.

Canadian lawyer and diplomat who served as Governor General of Canada, the 18th since Confederation.

The Gate House of Burwash Hall, a residence of Victoria College donated by Massey's father, and where Massey served as the first Dean of Men
Massey (right), William Phillips (left), and Charles Lindbergh outside Rideau Hall in July 1927
A satirical cartoon created by J. E. H. MacDonald to mark the appointment of Massey as Canadian minister to the United States, and presented to Massey on February 5, 1927
Justice Minister Ernest Lapointe with Canadian Ambassador to the United States Vincent Massey, and Quebec Premier Louis-Alexandre Taschereau at the White House in 1928.
Massey (left) shares a laugh with an Inuit inhabitant of Frobisher Bay
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Vincent Massey Park in Ottawa
Vincent Massey library at Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario
Vincent Massey Public School in Toronto

He subsequently continued his philanthropic work and founded Massey College at the University of Toronto and the Massey Lectures before he died on December 30, 1967.

Buildings of St John's College, Cambridge

Collegiate university

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University in which functions are divided between a central administration and a number of constituent colleges.

University in which functions are divided between a central administration and a number of constituent colleges.

Buildings of St John's College, Cambridge
The University of Otago Registry Building
Branford College at Yale University
The University of Paris depicted in a 17th-century engraving

The London pattern spread the idea of the examining university with affiliated colleges around the British Empire, in particular to Canada where the University of Toronto was refounded as an examining university, its teaching arm becoming University College, Toronto, which federated other colleges in the region, and to India, where the universities of Calcutta, Madras and Mumbai were founded in 1857, and New Zealand, where the federal University of New Zealand was established in 1874.

Upper Canada

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Part of British Canada established in 1791 by the Kingdom of Great Britain, to govern the central third of the lands in British North America, formerly part of the Province of Quebec since 1763.

Part of British Canada established in 1791 by the Kingdom of Great Britain, to govern the central third of the lands in British North America, formerly part of the Province of Quebec since 1763.

Map of Upper Canada (orange) with 21st-century Canada (pink) surrounding it
Map of Upper Canada's districts
Map of Upper Canada by J. Arrowsmith (1837)
The third Parliament Building in York was built between 1829 and 1832 at Front Street.
Second market in York (Toronto)
Drawing showing the fatal shooting of Col. Robert Moodie outside John Montgomery's tavern in Toronto on 4 December 1837
The Province of Quebec in 1774
An 1824 land deed for Upper Canada
Canada Company Office, 1834
Huron Tract Purchase area, located in Southern Ontario, highlighted in yellow
Map of Upper Canada
The Sharon Temple, built by the Children of Peace
The Bank of Upper Canada, Toronto
The complete First Welland Canal including the Feeder Canal and the extension to Port Colborne. The present-day canal is marked in pale grey
The Rideau Canal in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, with Parliament Hill and the old "Union Station" visible in the background
Painting depicting the death of Isaac Brock

Strachan was part of the oligarchic ruling class of the province, and besides leading the Church of England, also sat on the Executive Council, the Legislative Council, helped found the Bank of Upper Canada, Upper Canada College, and the University of Toronto.

The Annex

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Neighbourhood in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Neighbourhood in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The area has many homes built in the late 19th century.
The University of Toronto's Robert Brown House at 4 Bancroft Avenue. The building is an example of an 'Annex style house', an architectural style common throughout the Annex.
The Brunswick House is located within the Annex on Bloor Street.
Timothy Eaton with his son, John. Many members of the Eaton family formerly lived in the Annex.
12 Admiral Road, former home of Lester B. Pearson (from 1925 to 1928).

Bordering the University of Toronto, the Annex has long been a student quarter, and it is also home to many fraternity houses and members of the university's faculty.

Toronto School of communication theory

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The Toronto School is a school of thought in communication theory and literary criticism, the principles of which were developed chiefly by scholars at the University of Toronto.

Queen's Park (Toronto)

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Urban park in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Urban park in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Photo of the building formerly used by King's College (later the University of Toronto) in 1855, at present-day Queen's Park
Victoria Day celebrations at Queen's Park in 1910
Aerial view of Queen's Park. The park is split into two sections by Wellesley Street
View of the northern section of Queen's Park. The park includes a variety of trees native to Toronto as well as trees not from Ontario.
The bronze statue at the North-West Rebellion Monument. The statue sits atop a white granite plinth.
The Post One monument was built to commemorate Canada's centennial
The Ontario Veterans Memorial is dedicated to Canadian military service members from Ontario.
The Canadian Volunteers Monument is west of the park
The Ontario Firefighter Memorial is situated southeast of Queen's Park

The park is nearly an enclave of the University of Toronto, which occupies most of the surrounding lands.

The southern entrance to Philosopher's Walk

Philosopher's Walk (Toronto)

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The southern entrance to Philosopher's Walk

Philosopher's Walk is a scenic footpath located in the St George campus of the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario.

University of Toronto Mississauga

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CCT Building
MiST Theatre
Generally MiST has 148 seats set up, but the capacity is often increased for lecture style events.
Erindale Studio Theatre

The site of the Mississauga campus is the former estate of Reginald Watkins, which was acquired by the University of Toronto in 1963.

Nisi Dominus (incipit of Psalm 127)

Anglican Church of Canada

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Province of the Anglican Communion in Canada.

Province of the Anglican Communion in Canada.

Nisi Dominus (incipit of Psalm 127)
Flag of the Anglican Church of Canada
A bilingual example of the classic welcome sign displayed outside Anglican churches throughout Canada, at Christ Church Cathedral in Montreal
The replica of John Cabot's ship Matthew. The first cleric of the English Church sailed on her to North America in 1497.
Oldest Anglican chalice in Canada (1663); Rev. Roger Aitken gave it to St. Peter's Anglican Church (West LaHave, Nova Scotia) (1818), King's University Archives
St. Paul's Church, Halifax. The oldest Anglican Church in Canada still standing, built in 1750
Reconstruction of Port Royal by Parks Canada
Charles Inglis. Became first bishop of Nova Scotia in 1787 and first bishop of the Church of England outside the British Isles in the British Empire
John Strachan
St Peter's Pro-Cathedral, Qu'Appelle, Assiniboia, North-West [sic] Territories
Anglican archbishops and bishops of Canada, c. 1924
The church in Hay River, Northwest Territories
Cathedral Church of All Saints, Halifax

Nonetheless, Strachan played considerable part in promoting education, as founder of Kings College (now the University of Toronto) and Trinity College.

UTS in 2011

University of Toronto Schools

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UTS in 2011
UTS in 2011
UTS in 1920

University of Toronto Schools (UTS) is an independent secondary day school affiliated with the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.